Here's what happened: he got his bell rung and wasn't seeing/thinking straight -- he thought the linesman was a Pred and gave him a shove. He played the rest of the game because players get concussed all the time and don't take themselves out of the game.
In my opinion concussion protocol should not be voluntary regardless. It probably will become this way after the concussion law suits are settled.
As for charges of hypocrisy they're true -- but that doesn't make us wrong; we know Wideman, we know it's out of character and something else must be going on. Sport fandom is the biggest exercise in hypocrisy on earth.
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